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BoochaniA Letter from Manus Island  \n# BORDERSTREAM BOOKS\n\n## Booklets\n\nA Letter From Manus IslandBy Behrouz Boochani  \nA Brief Guide to Middle Class HomelessnessBy Kenneth Wolman  \n## Anthologies\n\nArts Features International,Issue 1,Winter 2018,Escape Artists AnthologyEdited by Ruth Skilbeck  \nEscape Artists Anthology 2013-2017Edited by Ruth Skilbeck  \n# Escape Artists Advance Party\n\nBy Ella Skilbeck-Porter,Maxim Skilbeck-Porter andLale Teoman  \n## Musico-Literary Studies\n\nThe Writer's Fugue:Musicalization,Trauma and Subjectivity inthe Literature of Modernity.Third edition.By Ruth Skilbeck  \n## Fiction\n\nCafe Life in the Antipodes(novel)By Ruth Skilbeck  \nBehrouz BoochaniA Letter from Manus Island  \nWith a Preface by Ruth Skilbeck  \nCopyright ◎2018  \nA Letter from Manus Island copyright C Behrouz BoochaniPreface copyright ◎Ruth Skilbeck  \nPamphlet copyright ◎Ruth Skilbeck/Borderstream Books  \nBorderstream Books  \nAdamstown,NSW2289  \nwww.borderstreambooks.com.au  \nAll rights reserved.No part of this book may be reproducedor transmitted by any person or entity,in any form or by anymeans,electronic or mechanical,including photocopying,recording,scanning or by any information storage or retriev-al system except in the case of brief quotations embodied incritical articles or reviews as permitted under the CopyrightAct 1968,without prior permission in writing from thecopyright holder and publisher.  \nA catalogue record for thisbook is available from theNational Library of Australia  \nISBN:9780648398394(pbk)  \nDesigned and typeset by Ruth Skilbeck in AdobeGaramond Pro 12/15  \nContents  \nPrefaceRuth Skilbeck  \nA Letter From Manus IslandBehrouz Boochani  \n7  \n## Preface\n\nThe unfolding story of exiled writer Behrouz Boochanis courage,leadership and love of humanity in an age ofglobal disruption  \nSince August 2013,author,filmmaker,poet and journalist,Behrouz Boochani,has been held on Manus Island as a state-less refugee,where he has been writing,often fourteen hours aday,on his life's experiences.His articles are published in TheGuardian,and other newspapers and periodicals around theworld;and his extraordinary poetic autobiographical novel NoFriend But The Mountains,which he wrote in text messages inFarsi(Persian)on his mobile phone,and transmitted to histranslator Omid Tofighian (at the University of Sydney),waspublished in English in July 2018 by the global publisher PanMacmillan.It follows the release last year of his documentaryflm,Chauka Please Tell us the Time,made from footage shoton his mobile phone at Manus Island refugee processing cen-tre,or prison.His manifesto,ALetter from Manus Island,waspublished by The Saturday Paper in Australia,on 9 December2017,and I feel privileged to have Behrouz's permission topublish his profound and significant work.  \nBoochani is 34,an ethnic Kurd from Ilam city,with a Mas-ter of Arts degree in Political Geography and Geopolitics fromTabiat Modares University in Tehran.Behrouz was incarcer-ated on Manus Island,an island of Papua New Guinea,fiveyears ago after he fled Tehran,as an exiled journalist,to avoidarrest and imprisonment and possibly save his life,followingintimidation by the authorities;due to his co-founding and  \nediting of a political and social magazine Werya(or Varia)ad-vocating for Kurdish language and culture.The Kurdish peo-ple are stateless and form the biggest group of stateless peoplein the world,and are suppressed in Iran  \nBoochani had begun his career as a journalist writing forthe student newspaper when he was studying at University.He freelanced for newspapers and the Iranian Sports Agency.It was when he co-founded and edited Werya,that he becameknown to the authorities.  \nHe said in an interview as reported in the Guardian news-paper that they started it because:“The new generation aretalking with 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